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By John Lapraik
At this year’s Relativity Fest, in the session “Collecting and Reviewing European Documents in U.S. Litigation,” I discussed how and why the European Data Protection Directive (the Directive) protects “personal” data in the European Union member states plus Iceland, Norway, and Lichtenstein—together known as the European Economic Area (EEA).
The Directive is, in effect, an instruction to each country to pass its own law—each country implements the terms of the Directive independently (and can, if it wishes, choose to include additional, more stringent, provisions).
Not least because of the troubled history of many European countries over the last 80 years—often involving widespread spying on peoples and the maintenance of databases recording their daily activities—the need to control what is collected and done with personal data is taken extremely seriously.
Read the original article at What Everyone Should Know About Bringing European Data to the U.S.
